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- noun Plural form of
drowner .
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Examples
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I know there has been talk in Washington about helping us "student debt-drowners," but I watch politics go on as usual and it leads me to believe that there will be no help for me and the thousands like me.
College Debt: Where's Our Bailout? Todd Sussman 2010
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I think the kitten drowners, or the kitten-head-smashers like my grandfather, never held one in their lap.
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I know there has been talk in Washington about helping us "student debt-drowners," but I watch politics go on as usual and it leads me to believe that there will be no help for me and the thousands like me.
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We walked and argued about lampshades and the finer points of medieval napkin folding, laughed at the malignant arch of pelicans and whistled odes to the drowners.
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We walked and argued about lampshades and the finer points of medieval napkin folding, laughed at the malignant arch of pelicans and whistled odes to the drowners.
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The men and women sentenced to death, were first stripped of their clothes down to the shirt, and even the shift; it would be a pity to let valuable objects go to the bottom with their owners, and therefore the drowners divide these amongst themselves; a wardrobe in the house of the adjutant
The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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I know there has been talk in Washington about helping us "student debt-drowners," but I watch politics go on as usual and it leads me to believe that there will be no help for thousands like me.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Helene Pavlov 2010
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Too bad Nino's not gonna save any drowners this time around
Anime Nano! 2010
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It seems like our financial strategy lately is: everyone jump out of the lifeboat to rescue the drowners.
MetaFilter Projects 2008
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It seems like our financial strategy lately is: everyone jump out of the lifeboat to rescue the drowners.
MetaFilter Projects 2008
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